Diversity and distribution of ecotypes of the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophy gene pufM in the Delaware estuary

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4012-4021

  Waidner, Lisa A ^a   Kirchman, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AAP BACTERIA; AEROBIC (CSTR); AEROBIC ANOXYGENIC PHOTOTROPHIC (AAP) BACTERIA; DELAWARE ESTUARY; DELAWARE RIVER; ESTUARINE WATERS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LIGHT REACTION CENTER; QUANTITATIVE PCR;

BACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; SALINITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ESTUARY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHOTOTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUFM GENE; RHODOBACTER; RHODOFERAX; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

AEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DELAWARE; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RIVERS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DELAWARE ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOFERAX;

EID: 46949086072     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02324-07     Document Type: Article

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